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Description: | This attractive landscape draws on the late eighteenth-century - early nineteenth-century attraction for all things medieval. Indeed this picture may predate the famous Voyages Pittoresques (the first in the series was published in 1820) of Baron Taylor, a series of illustrated books describing the wonders of French medieval architecture. Here the architectural detail may not the main feature of the painting, but is nonetheless given a prominent place in the composition, with the lines formed by the fence, the path and the bent tree attracting the eye towards the statue. The rest of the painting evokes an ideal peasant lifestyle where the harvest has been abundant. | Subjects: | sheep) landscape; figure; animal (cows | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Demarne, Jean-Louis (French genre painter and landscapist, ca. 1752-1829) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8985... | Go to resource |
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